Harold J. Laski: “This, I suggest, is the kind of environment any plea for freedom must meet in the modern state.”

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.